What are Text Features | Paperless Classroom

Text feature walk is an unconventional method that resembles the methodology of primary picture walks.

The ultimate goal of any teacher or tutor is to ensure success in learning and achievement of the student.

A proper strategy can help learners accumulate and frame information, enabling them to recall their study matter and learn from them.

Text navigation also plays a vital role in content learning strategies.

The student can improve comprehension capabilities in three divisions: text features, text organization, and text content.

The text feature consists of all the “secondary components” in an article or story which does not flow with the main reading text.

It contains contents, glossary, index, headings, captions, sidebars, bold words, labelled diagrams and explicit pictures.

However, framing a proper relation between the contents and the pictures are essential.

They can either improve the article if the match is almost identical between the pictures and the contents. Or, they spoil the composition with mismatching writings and images.

Connections that form uniformity

Suitable text organization can help the reader get a clear “line-of-thought” through a gradual and rational content composition.

On the contrary, poor text features lack the harmonic connection with complex or vocabulary-enriched contents.

Text organization stands for the outline and arrangement that the author has put to use when writing the text.

Simplicity in contents can help to improve the understanding of the readers.

Use simple vocabulary and keep the article straightforward for readers to grasp.

The text feature walks involve students working collectively in separate groups.

They read according to the set order it appears before them and shares what they learn among themselves.

The students should reflect on the individual text features and debate about the central concept in that text.

Such mutual exchange of varying viewpoints and unique ideas weave a more rich content.

Text feature walks can help students to improve mutual friendship.

They can deal with each other’s problems through a solution.

Challenging content hurdles that strengthen student intellect

Their gradual progression over such text features gain their knowledge about the organization of the text.

The students begin to cross-examine the underlying facts about the content (2000, Gutlohn, Honig, Diamond).

An unversed content article can make students struggle with the concepts and vocabulary as they fail to attach the story's loose ends.

But, such instances can help the students to visualize ideal concepts and improve their remembering capacities.

Their mutual conversations about the text or content can lead them to live their reading and thereby add a goal to their studies.

The text feature walks can improve their meaning construction and help students to sharpen their learning skills (Leslie and Recht, 1988).

The vocabulary enrichment and content learning skills can be fruitful through the text feature walk active learning skill.

Suitable reading planning can help students to communicate the idea behind the composed text.

It can redirects students to remain inline within the content domain.

Text feature walks can enable pupils to converge both – content learning with reading.